Product Lead

Introduction
Evident is an intelligence platform that benchmarks and tracks AI adoption across the financial services sector. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of AI across the sector by creating the most complete, unbiased, and transparent benchmarks of AI capability. Since the launch of our flagship product in January 2023, the Evident AI Index has rapidly become the global standard benchmark for AI maturity in financial services. We now have an evolving suite of products that power strategic decision-making for the world’s largest institutions.

Why join us

• We are index experts: Our Co-Founders Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Annabel Ayles have more than 30 years of experience building complex indices that drive positive change in the world.
• We are building a cutting-edge research team: We use the latest techniques in machine learning to build faster and better data collection and analysis tools.
• World-class backing: We’ve been backed by some of the world’s leading tech investors, including the backers of Revolut and the tech commentator Scott Galloway.
• Market Impact: We’re working with some of the world's largest banks, helping them shape their AI strategies impacting millions of customers.

If you are interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, innovative and impact-driven company, you can read about Our Values and Our Commitment to Responsible AI.

The Role
We are looking for an execution-focused Product Lead to own the evolution of our core products. You will be the architect of our value proposition, sitting at the intersection of commercial strategy, client delivery, data, design and engineering. Your goal is to continue to develop our world-class benchmarking data into a scalable, multi-vertical platform. You will be responsible for productizing our deliverables, and creating a seamless interface between our proprietary data and the leaders who need it to make decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and own the product vision across banking, payments, insurance and new industries - for our Index Benchmark and/or Intelligence Platform. Translate commercial targets and feasibility considerations into a prioritised roadmap. Identify and execute on opportunities for product evolutions or expansion, in collaboration with other teams.
• Productization and Scalability: Manage the process of converting market insights and client feedback into scalable components. Work with Commercial and Content teams to determine what is standardized for scale versus what remains flexible for high-value client needs. Support the reduction of manual delivery by driving the automation of insights and report generation alongside all relevant teams. Work with the Data, Analytics and Client Delivery teams to ensure that our data outputs are consistent, accurate, and repeatable across all client cohorts and industry verticals. Drive the development of scalable platform features, including data dashboards.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Coordinate year-round end-to-end delivery across Client Delivery, Methodology, Data, Engineering and Intelligence teams, as well as managing discrete product development projects. Own complex timelines, mitigate dependencies, and uphold a rigorous bar for the quality of outputs. Work at the intersection of the Technical and Client Delivery teams, and the Commercial team - ensuring the product roadmap supports commercial targets.
• Commercial Strategy: Manage internal product development processes & feedback from industry leaders to validate and improve product roadmap. Define packages and pricing in collaboration with the Commercial team. Track how the products you own are contributing towards commercial targets.

Core Skills

• Product Leadership: Proven track record managing data-heavy or information services products, ideally within a SaaS or Fintech environment.
• Methodological Rigor: A structured mindset with the ability to understand benchmarking methodologies.
• Execution Excellence: Demonstrated ability to execute on complex cross-functional timelines by leading Engineering, Data, Research, Communications, Design and Marketing teams towards timeline product delivery.
• Commercial Strategy: Ability to view product through the lenses of packaging, tiers, and scalability to drive sustainable revenue growth.
• High-impact collaboration: Ability to work fluidly across all departments, communicating with brevity and precision, ensuring teams are aligned, dependencies are cleared, and focus is on getting things done.
• Process-Driven: A mindset that can turn successful one-off strategies into repeatable, automated playbooks.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: A proactive approach to problem-solving in a scaling environment. Take full ownership of your domain, build necessary processes from scratch where they don't exist, and actively contribute to the evolution of our culture as the company grows.

Benefits

• Share options: We offer all employees share options over a 4 year vesting period.
• Holidays: 28 days of holiday + public bank holidays.
• Flexible working: minimum 3 days per week in our Central London office.
• Learning & development budget: £1000/year.
• Pension & Private Health Insurance.

Our commitments to diversity and inclusion
Evident is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating all forms of discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. During our recruitment process, you will not be discriminated against for any protected characteristics. If you need us to make certain changes (known as reasonable adjustments) to make sure you are not disadvantaged during the recruitment process, you should contact us as soon as possible.